Surprise truce: The royal couples making a joint public appearance to view the tributes to Queen Elizabeth II outside Windsor Castle in 2022. — Mary Turner/The New York Times
KING Charles III has been busy this month marking the 80th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany and preparing to fly to Canada to open its Parliament today. But his public schedule was eclipsed yet again by a highly-publicised eruption from his estranged younger son, Prince Harry.
It has become a familiar pattern for the 76-year-old monarch. Two years after his coronation, his reign is shaping up as both eventful and oddly unchanging in its core narrative – that of a beleaguered father managing a messy brood.
